otomitl
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Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Etymology
Cf. Classical Nahuatl otomitl.
Noun
otomitl
- Otomi people.
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
otomitl
- Otomi people.
Classical Nahuatl
Alternative forms
singular
plural
Pronunciation
Noun
otomitl (plural otomih or otontin)
- An Otomi.
- 17C: Crónica Mexicayotl
- auh in yehuantin yn oncan chaneque yn otomi. çan quinmotetzanhuia
- (But the inhabitants, the Otomí, considered them an evil portent.)
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della, f. 4r:
- Otomitl, de nacion Otomi [...] Otomî
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 17C: Crónica Mexicayotl
- A member of an elite class of soldiers.
References
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 503
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 243
- Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 30–31
- Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 80–81
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 180